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CONTENTS: 

THE INSTEP 

THE SOUL 

THE HEAL 

MISGEL. 

EYE EPIGRAMS 

DUTY EPIGRAMS 

DICTIONARY OF EYE 



PREFACE 



"This plan is reeommendt neither to BLIND approbation, nor to 
BLIND reprobation. 7 '-^-Jay. 



' ' I value myself upon sympathy ; I hate and despise myself for envy. ' '■- 
Karnes. 



The Author presents this booklet with the sincere hope that it wil be 
treasured as a memento of the first history of the new city of Rockport, 
Indiana. 

Some declare that if the whisky element had not made Rockport a city, 
Thomas Franklin Sessor would stil see. Selah ! 

Mr. Sessor has a lenient hart. He workt for $50 a month. He now 
asks no large pension, but prefers to make his way so long as possibl. He 
wil hereafter contribute regularly to THE PRESIDENT. His articles wil 
deal with the growth of inner emotions, minus thre chief senses, — sight, 
taste,' scent. 

We shal be thankful for kind words, but also grateful for practical 
orders ! 

"A" President sits at Washington; but "THE" President gets "proof" 
in Indiana. Illustrated on 6x9 halftone white paper and bound in colored 
Leatheret. We have, for the next few years, many notabl articles from 
famous people who know how to do things. Help us make THE PRESIDENT 
a "Masterful, Moral, Mind Magazine," by voting your yearly subscription. 
You can get this book, ' ' Shot On Duty, ' ' only as a premium Avith THE 
PRESIDENT, one year for $1. Hand your subscription to Mr. Sessor, or 
mail to : 

THE PRESIDENT PUBLISHING CO., 
Rockport, Ind. 



(All the engravings in this book were made by The Knoxville Engraving 
Co., Knoxville, Tenn.). 




Photo ly J. M. Killian. 

THOMAS FRANKLIN SESSOR 

(BEFORE SHOT.) 



TESTIMONIALS 

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April 13th, 1909. 
$. COOK, 

The President, Kockport, Ind. 
Your Masterful, Moral Mind Magazine is always read with zest. I wil 
vote for the Indiana President every year and shal get my Official Brothers 
to help you win ! ' ' Shot On Duty ' ' is chuck f ul of vital truth ; I shal keep it 
as a little reference book. My regards to Mr. Sessor. An order is here- 
with sent. j 

Signed : FRED. H. BRENNECKE, Chief Police, 

Evansville, Ind. 



"$am Rud Cook's books are alright, .but they would be much better if 
he would not use so many sequipedalian (big) words." — J. T. H. 

The other side : ' ' Sam Rud Cook 's essays are good stuf . ' ' — ELBERT 
HUBBARD. 

"Formerly I only knew 700 words, but by constantly reading your maga- 
zine I think I now know about 19,000 words. Keep up the battle, for it 
makes me go to the Dictionary and lern life." — R. W. HOLMES, Plymouth, 
Mass. 



$AMUEL RUD COOK, Lit, B., 

Rockport, Ind. May 31, 1909. 

My dear Mr. Cook : 

I have read the copy of your book "Shot On Duty." You have made an 
entertaining and didatic treatise out of a very sad subject. I am proud 
to know that your skil as an Author comes largely thru the thoro course you 
took in our Oriental University, which confered on you the degree Bachelor 
of Literature. As a modest Automath you have again proven that it is not 
necessary to spend hundred of dollars at College for an education, if one has 
the Abe Lincoln grit to slowly but practically accomplish his aim amid 
many handicaps. 

Ever kindly your friend, 

Prof. H. P. HOLLER, Ph. D., S. T. D., President Oriental University, 

Alexandria, Va. 



EYE EPIGRAMS 

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(Ein fester Blick, ein- holier Mut, die sincl zu alien Zeiten gut.) "A 
steady eye and lofty mind are always of a helpful kind." — Bechstein. 

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"What do I gain from a man into Avhose eyes I cannot look when he is 
speaking, and the mirror of whose soul is veiled to me by a pair of glases 
which dazzle me?" — Goethe. 

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"The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which he sees me." — 
Schemer. 

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"The begining of creation (in man's soul as in Nature) is light. Til the 
eyes have vision, the whole members are in bonds. ' '■ — Goethe. 

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" 'Tis only in the forehed Nature plants the watchful eye; the' back, 
without defense, must find its shield in man's fidelity." — Schiller. 

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"The animals look for man's intentions right into the eyes. Even a rat, 
when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. ' ' — H. Powers.- 

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(Cieco el'occhio, se l'animo e distratto.) "The eye sees nothing if the 
mind is distracted. "—Italian Prov. 

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(Die Augen glauben sich selbst, die Ohren andern Lenten.) "The eyes 
believe themselves, the ears other people." — German Prov. 

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"We are creatures who look before and after. The more surprising that 
we do not look around a little, and see what is pasing under our eyes." — 
Carlyle. 

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"The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body." — Cicero. 

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"Whatever of goodnes emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo from 
the eyes ; and if the hart be the lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to 
betray the secret." — F. Sanders. 

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"Take thou the beam out of thine eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take 
the mote out of thy brother 's. ' ' — Jesus. 

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"God has made man to take pleasure in the use of his eyes, wits and body; 
and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at any- 
thing, without thinking of anything and without doing anything." — Ruskin. 




Photo by J. M. Killian. 

SAMUEL RUD COOK 

EDITOR THE PRESIDENT. 

AUTHOR: "SHOT ON DUTY," "TRITE TRIOLETS," ETC 



SHOT ON DUTY 



THE INSTEP 

'We shal expres our DUTY in the EYE. "— Shakesperq. 
r A Policeman makes ungarded beats wherein he steps." 



WRITING of Thorwaldsen, the 
great artist, Elbert Hub- 
bard says: "The realbusi- 
nes-like biografer begins 
by teling when his subject ''FIRST 
saw light." But the hero of this es- 
say makes us commenc by recording 
when an officer "saw the LAST 
light." 

When a person is born, cuts no 
figure; but a fellow losing his sight 
is nearly so pityful as when number- 
les beings have no insight into things. 
Soon after Mr. Thomas Franklin 
Sessor was shot totaly blind by the 
Lana'don boys in Rockport, Indiana, 
on the night of January 23, 1909, I 
wrote to Sessor asking him to mail 
me one of his photos to be used in a 
newspaper article. 

He had not only lost both eyes by 
that fateful shot, but his physical na- 
ture was considerably wretcht, so he 
replied : "I can 't now reeal who 
Samuel Rud Cook is, unles it be one 
of Uncle John Cook's sons; if so, I 
think you are alright and I wish you 
would not only write the newspaper 
feature, but please publish a book 
about this shooting AFFRAY ; becaus 
there are so many versions of it that 
I want the people to know just how 
it happened, and that people wil have 
something by which to remember me." 
Therefore, so soon as I was able to 
see Mr. Sessor, we pledged our labors 
and hope. 



But I should state at once that the 
episode was no "Shooting AF- 
FRAY," becaus, an "AFFRAY" is 
a quarrel where one .fellow is to blame 
so much as another; but this was a 
"defens of public, without regard for 
self." 

I then askt Mr. Sessor one fact: 
"Do you now harbor any malice 
against the Langdon boys?" (This 
Avas after the trial.) 

Poor Sessor lifted his watery emp- 
ty eye-lashes, his lips grew blue as 
his hand quivered while it lay upon 
the faithful cane, which so often is 
called upon to guide the infirm. 

Finally, he spoke : ' ' Samuel, is that 
a Lawyer's point in my case, or may 
I trust you?" This he evidently im- 
pugned to assertain some confidence 
in humanity, for he thot all the world 
was against him. I dare say, to him, 
Sidney's phrase came close and trite: 
' ' No dreams, but visions strange. ' ' 

Evading, or perhaps forgeting, I 
advised : ' ' Only tel me, shal I write 
this case up from a MALICE STAND- 
POINT, or do you believe there is no 
antinomist in all the world?" 

"If I understand you right," he 
aspirated, as he put his fingers to his 
ded-eyes to impres the meaning, "I 
believed no person commits wrongs 
knowingly; and as to malice towards 
the Langdon boys God knows I never 
had any hatred in my hart for any- 
body ! ' ' Then he laid his hed wearily 



SHOT ON DUTY 



upon an old table, and a world of 
thots must liave daslit thru his crani- 
um. Sympathetic swallows filled my 
throat, as I studied Sessor's big badge 
displaying these words : ' ' CITY MAR- 
SHAL. ' ' I thot ' Ah, fate, how cruel ! 
No badge, title, nor glitter defends 
poor, mortal man who trys to do some 
special duty in the path of life.' 

If a man must be shot, it is some 
cheer to fall, like a soldier, while on 
duty: Men are SHOT on duty, wo- 
men get POWDER for beauty. Nei- 
ther makes either nice, tho the words 
rime— the fact is CRIME! 

The Queen of England took a cup- 
and-saucer. That's a way of drink- 
ing deLIGHT! But Sessor is no 
drinker and his cognomen is not pro- 
nounced Saucer, but Sessor. 

Frank people are seldom murdered, 
but they may be made to die by 
inches, when enemies won't obey the 
rule. Frank, from Latin, means 
"Ere.". Take "RANK," prefix F, 
the beginning of Friend, then you get 
the Frank name, and to have fre 
friends one must be frank. The first 
part of the name Frank is "Fra," 
which typifies "Brother;" hence, he 
who is frank in expression, or acts, 
always gains a brother. Yet Frank 
Sessor got the deth of his eyes and 
the tax of darknes. 

The Bible speaks of a "douting 
Thomas," but Thomas Franklin Ses- 
sor never douted the friendship of 
fellowmen. 

Frankalmoigne was a tenure by 
which a priest would hold lands, for 
which, in exchang, he prayed for the 
donor. Now most people frankly 
pray and work out their own salva- 
tion — even the blind Frank Sessor. 

The candid man never did anything 
he must conseal; the frank person 
never wil do something which needs 
revelation. 

In "Who's Who in America," I 
find no Sessor cognomen; but "I do 
read of five DISTINGUISH^ Lang- 



dons — it's a horror to Bluff City 
minds that some Langdons' were not, 
of sins, EXTINGUISHT before they 
found out "Who's Who at Jefferson- 
viile ! ' ' 

Some declare that Mr. Sessor has 
RECOVERED! But, if eternal-dark- 
pitch is recovery, then, Oh, sweet God, 
in the game of pop-eyes-out, and the 
stumble-around-on-justice, poke us al 
far away FROM recovery! I would 
rather SEE LIGHT than Marshal a 
Duty in any Darktown Sillysismus! 

Mayors come and go; but slayers 
stay so long as eyes, "which Tennyson, 
calls "homes of silent prayer," may 
bo pluged out with a 38 bore i'or only 
$100, plus two years. 
. This is no tame sermon, nor a sen- 
sational lecture — it aims to be, a plain 
essay regarding th« essence of an in- 
cident that has had no precedent in 
this neck- 'o-the-woods, and we hope 
it cannot have, in the future, a co- 
incident. 

It is echoed that one -of the Lang- 
don boys swore he would not only 
kil a few more Rockport people, when 
he returns, but he Avil make 'MUSH 
out of $am Rud Cook's hed!' I am 
sorry he read some of the proof of 
this book, but we are told "the proof 
is in the puding. " This book is not 
writ-en to help clam the Langdon boys, 
then defy them to get up again. Far 
from it ! It is simply fact, as a les- 
son to others; and no one should 
rashly object to being a good lesson 
for the betterment of a community. 
Jessie James, Pat Crowe, and many 
others, have reformt, and our J:aith is 
strong in the Langdon lads. Yet, like 
Attorney Heney, of California, we 
won't accept threats, and we eagerly 
await the MUSH, or PUDING, which- 
ever it shal be. But though we can 
digest mush, puding is too sweet for 
our dyspeptic stomach. 

The other Langdon boy has promist 
to lead a better life and be a "very 
WARM friend" to Sessor: It is wise 



THE INSTEP 




JIM LANGDON 



to observ that some WARMNES 
makes it too hot for mortal eyes. But 
we al wil hope for the best, and await 
to SEE! 

"Imagination is the RETINA of 
the univers. ' ' — Ruskin. 

Thomas Franklin Sessor was born 
on John Schofield's farm, Clay Town- 
ship, Spencer County, Indiana, on 
the 7th day of June, 1870, just thre 
miles from Buffaloville. There he 
lived with his mother, but workt for 



neighbors for smal amounts so soon 
as he was four years oM. 

When 14 bronze counts had flusht 
his face he came to Rockport, where 
he lived ever since, excepting six 
years when he resided four years in 
Evansville, one year at Vincennes, 
and one year at Caneville, Ky. 

Sessor is 6 ft. 3 1 /? inches high and 
weight 200 pounds May 17, 1909. With 
all his physical strength he is badly 
handicapt, for it is even difficult for 
a man with two good eyes to make a 



SHOT ON DUTY 



living. 

In 1901 Sessor saved the life of a 
two year old boy as a drunkard held 
up the child and was about to dash 
it on the brick-pavement. Sessor no- 
ticed this, heroicaly ran near, while 
his face was white as a sacred swan. 
He grappled firmly the wobbling man 
preventing him from dashing the lad 's 
brains onto the pavement. 

Later, when put upon the Police 
force, he saw a tipsy fellow racing a 
horse down Main street one summer 
day. At the corner of the Farmers 
Bank thre year old Oleza Darneal 
was standing. Sessor instantly be- 
held the deth of that boy in that col- 
lision. Deftly he sprang, grabed the 
boy, then whirled aside with his 
precious trophy, the hubs of the rig 
brushing him as he struggled away, 
the youth anchored safe in Sessor 's 
big arms. There are now no more 
grateful parents in Rockport, and 
Charles Darneal, the father, offered 
to reward Sessor, but he would not 
take it, claiming that nothing but 
his sworn duty had been performt. 

But these are enuf to illustrate his 
every watchful, thoro service. Sessor 
was a 'Peace Officer,' he never swore 
and always made his arrests quietly. 
Had he used the bludgeon he might 
have made jelly of some beds, or shot 
the Langdons. He believed that 
'rulers who kil their enemies are 
teaching murder as a fine art, and 
fixing private individuals in the be- 
lief that for them to kil is according 
to higher law.' 

There are thousands of opinions ex- 
prest by the man-who-knows-kow-af- 
ter-things-happen, — how he, or they 
would have done in Sessor 's case. 
Many of these people are like the 
Rev. Mr. Davidson of Washington, 
Ind., who told Chief Police Corning 
that if the star and club were de- 
livert to him, he would clean the town 
up in thirty days; but when Corning 
agreed, the 'Rev-end' refused to 



tackle the job. It is easy to move tin 
soldiers, but to study out the checkert 
board of life in advance is quite an- 
other problem. 

Compare Sessor with the coward on 
the Police Force of New York, who, 
after being called to duty, ran into a 
millinery store and allowed a brutal 
man to shoot two innocent persons. 
This New York police Avas then brot 
to trial, his brass buttons were cut 
off and he was kickt down the lofty 
steps of The Justice Temple. 

Had Sessor sneakt off and not made 
an attempt to arrest the Langdons, 
after no help was availabl, you would 
not care to help him, and I dare say 
he would not feel like grasping your 
hand of friendship. Sessor says: "I 
would rather try to look at a person 
with blind eyes, than to shut good 
eyes and sneakingly gaze at former 
friends. Some" say they would have 
acted different than I did, but my 
dear people, there is not one thing of 
which I am ashamed in' this case, for 
I positively know I did my duty and 
none could have done better than I 
did tinder all the circumstances." 

Some su2,'2,'ested to Sessor that he 
sue the City of Rockport for $5000; 
but Frank is frank, and reasonable 
even in this. He says he knows the 
better clas of people would have to 
pay the most of this, so he prefers 
to fight his own way, for many busi- 
nes men say 'Sessor shal never suf- 
fer want.' 

Pliny the Younger tels in his letter 
to Tacitus (VI. 16) that, when the 
eruption began, his uncle ordered out 
a light swift galley to take him from 
Misenum, where the Roman fleet lay, 
nearer to the place of eruption. While 
so doing, he" received a note from a 
Roman lady in a villa on the coast 
below the Vesuvius to send her help. 
This perhaps was the first intimation 
to Pliny that the matter was becom- 
ing dangerous. His nephew then says 
that his uncle thereupon changed his 



THE INSTEP 



plan and ordered out the quadrirerues, 
— i.e., large galleys with four banks 
of oars, — in order not only to bring 
help to that lady, but to many; for 
he adds that the attraetiv shore was 
crowded with inhabitants. Pliny the 
Elder, then, as is wel known, lost his 
life as a victim of his curiosity and 
desire of knowledg in going too near 
to the vicinity of the eruption. "He 
hastened there,''' his nephew says, 
"from where others fled." According 
to the report of his nephew, Pliny 
cannot be accused for not doina,' much 



to help his fellow-men, and only in- 
cidentally picking up some fugitives. 
He surely did all he could; for his 
nephew is a short letter, which he 
mainly wrote to satisfy the wish of 
Tacitus concerning the deth of his 
uncle, very probably only toucht up- 
on the help Pliny brot to those that 
needed it. 

Surely, Ave under a Christian na- 
tion are wiling to help the man who, 
like Pliny, rusht to help where others 
fled. 



THE SOUL 

(SESSOR'S STORY) 



' Yet stab at thee who wil 
No stab the soul can kil. ' ' 

Sir John Davis. 



YEARS ago, one of the Lang- 
don boys recited in school, 
' ' Remember Boys Make 
Men." But sometimes 
gassoons don't remember, then start 
too soon in making men, or ' ' infant 
industries," braggadocio and-rhodo- 
montade tatterdemalions, — long before 
they have enuf dough to raise respect- 
ability thru some moral enterprise. 

I was unable to attend the trial, 
held at Roekport, February 13; but 
the attorney and Sessor vouch for 
what I write. A short narration by 
Sessor follows : 

"An officer knows not what mo- 
ment his life wil be shot out." 

"True," affirmed I, comparing 
Homer 's Odyssey : 

"A knotty stake than aiming at his 
bed 
Downdropt he groaning, and the 
spirit fled." 

"Yes, it was a knotty arm which 
aimed at my lied, and I fell groan- 
ing; but, thank Jehovah, the spirit 
ain't dec! yet. 

"Now, I don't want to dictate, but 
we must get the particulars of this 
case — " 

' ' Sure, ' ' interrupted I, ' ' Particular 
Produces Public Peace!" 

Again, he started: "I want to be so 
particular with the details of this 



book as I was in the performance of 
my official duties. 

' ' I only know the Lan°don boys 
l wo years BACK" — "and one night 
from the FACE," I suggested, as 
Sessor got deeply interested, almost 
l.i Lifting his troubles. 

' ' People Avho haye lived here all 
their lives, have talkt in crowds where 
the Lang'don boys were, yet, now they 
claim they never knew' those boys. 
The reason is, becaus the Langdons 
never converst, except with a few 
pals. 

"Many a night I have stood a 
square off to watch Jim, Dick and 
Bill Langdon, while they stood vis-a- 
vis for so long as an hour at a time, 
seemingly ploting. As I would pas 
I never could get an inkling of a sup- 
posed cacology. ■ 

' ' Yet, I did not know, until the 
fateful night, that people generally 
were so afraid of these boys, that 
they stayed aloof fearing I- would 
deputiz them to help arrest the Lang- 
dons, then later get killed. For peo- 
ple now say that these desperados 
had threatened to murder Mayor 
Walker, Squire Jones, Prosecutor 
Savage, and several others. 

"I also found out afterwards that 
when Bill Langdon cut the throat of 
Sam Young's boy, Langdon laid out in 
the woods like a lion in Africa afraid 
of Roosevelt. Thus, Langdon finally 



THE SOUL 



11 



crost the Ohio river to Martin Machel- 
fresh's, and so awaited Young's re- 
covery. 

' ' Two "weeks before I was shot I 
received a telephone call, from Pow- 
er's Corner, stating' that Bill Langdon 
was about to kil a fellow out there. 
It was tipt that Langdon had only a 
knife; but later T discovered that he 
had a gun ready for my bowles; so 
he might have killed me that night, 
while I approach! him. 

' ' On the following Saturday night, 
a week before I was shot, Atlas Clark, 
who runs the Third Street Saloon, 
sent word to Mayor Walker that the 
Marshal was needed on Third Street, 
to which place I hastened. 

"Bill Langdon had been there, 
flashing a "gun.. When Clark told him 
to give up the weapon, or go out, 
Langdon threatened that the Saloonist 
was not game if he would not go out 
into the street to fight the matter 
thru. 

"Anthony Tignor claimed that 
Langdon was drunk and he (Tignor) 
had taken him home. But as we went 
out of the Hell Hole we met Bill 
Langdon coming back, with his hands 
in his pocket on his gun. He made 
an effort to fire, but I grabed his hand 
and got the revolver, then fined him 
$19.50 which he could not pay, on 
default of which he was lockt up. 

"While in jail he broke two win- 
dow PANES, with his fist. His fa- 
ther Avas PAINED enuf to stay the 
fine of his wayward son. That lookt 
nice for a clear view, and I thot I 
had aired Bill some. 

"I never saw Bill again, until the 
darkest night of my life, January 
23, 1909. The "23" was unlucky to 
my sight, wil it be to Roosevelt, Avho 
left for a DARK Continent two 
months later? 

"That night Jim and Bill Langdon 
had gone to the Powers last chance, 
to put bird-seed into the cerebrum of 
Joe Meredith. But Joe had shut his 



door early and went home; yet, if it 
had not been for the boys loafing a- 
round the corner, Langdons' would 
have carried out their threats, as 
several attempts were made to dis- 
turb the Meredith domicile. All this 
I only heard later. The Langdons' 
then came upon Main street, and I 
ordered them to go home, but Bill 
persisted, tho Jim seemed to be wil- 
ing. 

.' ' I met them again in ten minutes, 
slashing their knives, trying their 
best to cut some innocent little boys, 
among whom was Harry Daniels and 
Cliff Prather (white), and Leo John- 
son (colored). 

' ' They passt along Third street and 
knockt their little Brother Henry, age 
13, from the cannon standing on the 
Court House terrace. I chased them. 

"The Langdons' ran and dodged 
into the Veranda Tonic Parlor. Then 
Harry Daniels told me of the troubl 
Bill and Jim had; so I laid-in-wait 
until they came out of the dizy-hed 
creator, 'for I realized that I had to 
lock them up, or they would kil some 
one that night. 

"Shortly they came out of the sa- 
loon, then walkt towards the river. I 
decided to watch until I could get 
close enuf to arrest them. They stood 
on Second and Main for fifteen min- 
utes, then returned, to the Veranda, 
the main Hotel in the city, where I 
arrested both." 

Here Sessor drew a long breth as 
inspiration for a retrospect. 

' ' I found an open knife in Bill 
Langdon 's pocket. I got Roy Fry to 
hold Bill while I searcht Jim; but I 
found nothing. I quickly told Pry to 
help me lock up the Langdons', but 
Pry protested, on color lines, that his 
upper-story might some day be made 
into fried-gravy, if he assisted. 

' ' After weiging the matter mercy- 
fully, I thot' I was man enuf to get 
the mes to the stew-box, or, per- 
chance meet some wel-bred, helpful 



12 



SHOT ON DUTY 




BILL LANGDON WHO DID THE 
SHOOTING 



man in the street." 

"So with Milton yon knew: 
" 'Hesperus, who's office is to bring 
Twilight upon the earth.' " 

"No. I never knew Hesperus, but I 
wanted to do my whole duty; so 
alone, I proeeded to bring quiet to 
the dusky hours of Rockport, " Ses- 
sor grilled back, geting keen on some 
logical terms of English. 

' * I saw men a block away, to whom 
I advanct; however, I lackt twelv 
feet of making my goal. I had both 



pseudo-men by the shoulder, while 
each one puled with tauromachian 
force, all the time, trying to break 
loose. 

"Bill got possession of my mace, 
which had been strapt to my wrist. 
Suddenly, Jim halted, and blubered: 
'Why do you, hie, arrect us?" I gave 
him the cond to move on, saying, 'ar- 
guments only WHET the bone of 
contention. ' • Jim blustered, that 
'they would WET my bed-pan with 
brimstone by intention,' then he 



THE SOULf 



13 



drew his hand back as tho he intend- 
ed to stab me with some secret knife. 
Knives were always their weapons. I 
did not think they had guns. Fear 
of the knife was one of the causes 
why I was shot. I nabed his arm, 
jerkt it down, but saw he had no 
dagger; therefore I deftly turnd my 
scrutiny to Bill. Being so busy I had 
forgoten my gun in my overcoat 
pocket, where I had put it for handy 
reference; but I did not think it" 
necessary to resort to 'powder-and- 
lead,' in a tussle with boys. Some- 
how Bill secretly had swipt the ' cali- 
ber-defence, ' and put it into his right- 
hand-hip-pocket. 

-'I, again, askt them to move on, 
as I pusht Jim along. Bill, who held, 
with his left hand, my club, all that 
time, now slipt around directly in 
front of me, while Jim began to 
snivle something like this, interspers- 
ed with chocolate cholloquialism : ' In 
the name of Almight, and the game 
of Dunite, hie, this string of goods 
must be rammed up tonight ! ' He 
drew the gun; then I made a terrific 
lurch, and with my tied-right-hand I 
knockt the fire-arm up, the first bulet 
going wild. Just as I came within an 
ace of snatching the gun, Jim, who 
had a tiger-hold on my left-ulna, gave 
me a suden jab causing me to mis the 
gun. Then I flincht. Then he fired, 
striking me in the back of my right 
eye, the ball coming out an inch and 
a half behind the left eye, between 
the zygomatic muscle and the vascular 
membrane lining the sclerotic, almost 
severing the ventricle of the larynx. 

' ' Obsesing my right mind, — no en- 
cephalitis, I went down upon the 
ground to see if Bill would stop his 
shooting, as I saw they had the best 
of me. I only could do as Sir Walter 
Raleigh, who laid his bed upon the 
block, then bravely acquiesced : ' There 
now, take that, it is all I have left to 
give you.' Sure, the present brute 
fired thre more shots. By this time I 
bea-an to feel that the first two were 



very fatal. Quickly I felt in my 
pockets to satisfy my consciens that 
it was my gun that did the gehennish 
work, for I did not know how soon I 
might be unconscious. One shot put 
both my eyes out forever! The sec- 
ond shot made a deep gash in my 
forehed, all the others (thre) whized 
by. 

1 ' The odd feature is that the same 
day I askt Squire Jones to trade me 
some of the new, dry catridges in Bill 
Langdon's pistol for some of mine, 
which were wet, and the Squire con- 
sented. Thus, you see, " I was shot 
with my own gun, but loaned bullets: 
Moral — Never borrow even a shot ! 
Had I kept my damp cartridges I may 
not have been prepared for duty, but 
the Langdons' could not have robed 
me of the greatest beauty in life, — 
SIGHT ! 

"Never again, shal I see any face 
upon earth. The last objects I be- 
held were Mr. William Langdon's 
face and my gun. 

"I lay there thre minutes. Mr. 
Whit Bise was the first man to come 
to me,, and he, with several other men, 
led me to Dr. Lang's office. After 
walking up stairs I sat down and in 
ten minutes had thre Doctors; but 
by that time I was so weak I barely 
could raise my hand. My pulse had 
dropt to 36 beats : This was the first 
time I made only a few beats while 
I held office," Sessor writingly con- 
doled, as he smiled for the first time. 

"By my moving around, after I 
was shot, my hart was kept beating, 
. thus saving my life. But- the real 
battle has only begun." 

These latter words Mr. Sessor ut- 
tered with an emotion that makes all 
the world kin. 

Analogy in Holy Writ testifies: "A 
cloud RECEIVED Him out of their 
sight," but in Sessor 's plight, the 
tragedy reads: "A cloud (darknes) 
DELIVERT him unto their sight. ' ' 

After wiping his eye spaces, Sessor 
concluded: "I know a few more 



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SHOT ON DUTY 



things, but I dare not tel them. I 
solemly swear I was not warned by 
the lower clas of people who now 
boast they did warn me. The short 
of the truth is, that I never could 
be 'TLPT' for vice privileges. I 
wasn't shot by ACCIDENT, I was 
shot on PLOT ! But may God let me 
live to have no malis for any person. 
Friends, this is a terrible shock and I 
may never get over it; but if I do, it 
can 't be soon. Yet, if I could get one 
of my eyes again, I would go right 
back on the force, for I love the work ; 
however, as that can't be, I wish all 
my friends, and especially Police Of- 
ficers, would call on me often to cheer 
the dark, dismal dungeon hours." 

Mr. Eigenman says he heard the 
Langdons' swear: "Sessor shal never 
beat us over our heels with his billy ! ' ' 
Then they rusht to the river, while 
Eigenman yelled: "What's the trou- 
ble?" They darted towards Eigen- 
man, as one twirled Sessor's gun on 
a finger, gnashing back: "What in 
the damnation of this creations 
groans and the cremation of your 
bones, is it to you? Do you want 
some of it?" 

Eigenman jokingly says that he then 
thot he ought to be in Boston where 
plentyful street corners serv as quick 
protection. 

Louis Savage, the Prosecuting At- 
torney, was informt, who hurried to 
the scene of crime, investigated, then 
rusht to the river wel armt; but dur- 
ing the twenty minutes the Langdons ' 
had time to proceed half way acros 
the crystal ! Ohio. Savage returnt, 
then messages were sent to all sur- 
rounding towns, offering $100 reward 
for the capture of the would-be frat- 
icides. It was later learnt that only 
Bill went to Kentucky, and he loosent 
Ferryman Miller's skift in such a 
hurry that he found no oars, so had 
to paddle over by hand. They were 
great water-dogs and fishermen. 

Big, Tom Ellis was sworn in to take 
Sessor's place; George Fleeger, Ses- 



sor's half-brother, who had been 
Marshal a year ago, refused on ac- 
count of Sessor's serious condition. 
Fleeger secured an ambulans, then 
took his brother home. 

'Sessor testifies : ' ' Charles Mayhall, 
the owner of the ded wagon, told me 
later that the Doctor declared I would 
die before they got me home. My bed 
was roaring like a -30,000 horse power 
engin with the govener belt thrown 
off! I kept asking the Doctor wheth- 
er he couldn't ease my hed, but he 
thot I was talking out of reason, yet 
I was conscious. Fully 300 people 
gathered that morning at my home, all 
eager to see me and find out how it 
happened. ' ' 

Word was soon received that one 
of the Langdons' were in Rockport; 
so Marshal Ellis, Sheriff Thrasher and 
George Fleeger put up a good watch, 
while Sessor struggled for life as he 
lay in his bed with a weeping mother 
near. 

Robert Bartley- spied Jim Langdon 
in the Lobby of the Veranda Hotel, 
so he levelt his gun on Jim, then 
marcht him out into the street where 
Sheriff Thrasher, after being notified, 
arrested Langdon. At the advise of 
Louis Savage, Langdon was placed in 
the Rockport jail for that night, as 
Jim was only an accomplice in the 
crime, his brother Bill having clone 
the shooting. 

But Langdon evidently saw the 
ghosts of the two negroes who were 
taken from the same eel, several years 
ago, and lyncht, becaus they murdered 
barber Simmons for a few dollars. So 
Langdon at once remarkt that 'if 
the people wanted to mob him the 
Sheriff should unlock ■ the -door and 
let them hang him on Sunday morn- 
ing, January 24th.' People make a 
practis of burying the ded on the 
Lord's Day, but here is a jail-bird 
who preferecl to sing the first song in 
BZeven on the Christian Sabbath. 
Everybody trys to save time nowa- 
days, and superstitions reigns ! 



THE SOUL 



15 




'- -3mm^ -^| / ; fl '::l':'./%m^^^^^^% 



PROC. WRIGHT WALKING NEAR WHILE BILL LANGDON CREEPS FROM WASHOUT 
UNDER BIG ROOTS OP KENTUCKY TREE. 



The next day Jim was hurried to 
the Vanderburg County Bastile for 
safe keeping, where he read the Bible 
until brot to Roekport for trial. 

In the meantime, Proek Wright, 
Tom Ellis, and Ellis Thrasher, the 
Sheriff, brave Hoosiers, were pursuing 
Bill over in that land where they sing 
without notes, "My Old Kentucky 
Home." Bill evidently had no 
NOTES, nor could he find one of 
those palacial homes, while the fine, 
fast horses also seemed to be scarce; 
so he coucht himself near the river 



bank under the roots of a massive 
water-oak. It is said pro and con 
that Prock Wright walkt right over 
the roots of that tree causing some 
clods to fall upon. Bill's cheeks to 
send tickle sensations to Langdon's 
system. Unsuspicious the posse 
searcht by, Bill all the while bating 
his big grey eyes much elated and 
perhaps singing, "Pas Me Not 
Gentle Saviour. ' ' He might have 
shol Wright at that moment. Surely 
it is a bad thing to go to the BIG- 
TIMBER ! 



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SHOT ON DUTY 



Mr. Sam Walker, Officer of Davis 
County, Ky., offered $25 to get Bill 
in a house. Word was received that 
Langdon was in Machlef resh 's house. 
Walker askt entrance, but was re- 
fused, so he broke in, and there Bill 
lay in bed. All he ogled, as the guns 
were levelt upon him, was: "That's 
one on me." After handcuft Bill 
demanded : "Is the reward on me for 
alive or ded?" 

"One hundred dollars for alive; 
$5,000 for ded," grilled the officer; 
then Bill wincht and troted on faith- 
fully to every command, meeting his 
brother at Evansville. At first re- 
quisition papers were demanded, but 
when Bill found out that Sessor was 
alive he agreed to come to the "Riley 
Land," twitting, "I'm glad Sess can't 
see me." Thus, they were brot to 
Rockport on the 13th day of Febru- 
ary, where ' Not Guilty, ' was the plea. 
They were put under $2,000 bond. 
When arranged the next day they 
pled 'GUILTY,' were fined $100 and 
sentenced to Jeffersonville from two 
to fourteen years, both being too 
young to send via State Prison to 
Michigan City. Bill is 24, Jim 26. 

A big crowd saw the boys leav and 
it is reported that Bill grieved : "I 
only regret that I can't chaw tobacco 
up at Jeffy, and I am not sorry for 
the deed, I would do it again." But 
since then each one has regretted the 
deed. 

It has been claimed that the revol- 
ver which did the dastard deed, was 
thrown into the Ohio river; but later 
honest, old Bent Evans found it at 
his home in a bureau drawer. But 
few know how it got there. The num- 
ber of the gun corresponded with the 
number Sessor had kept on a Tablet 
in Squire Jones' office. Salem Crow- 
ler bot and now owns this historic 
weapon. Large lumps of dough have 
been offered for it. 

"Prison, emblem of hel, nursery of 
crime." — Tom Brown. 



Before the Local Option election in 
Spencer County I was askt to go in 
the Temperance Parade with signs, 
' < This is What Whisky Did, " " Shot 
On Duty ; ' ' etc. I thot over this very 
seriously, but finally considered it too 
bold and bragadocial, becaus some of 
the WETS might have later sneakt 
up and clubbed me, and I, being blind, 
would have had a poor chance of de- 
fense. I wanted to be friends with 
everybody, but now since the WETS 
hang on to the cry "Sessor voted 
WET," I come square with facts: 

Out of fourteen saloons in Rock- 
port only two Saloonists have spoken 
to me since I was shot and only one 
came up to shake hands. Why should 
I vote wet? It pained me almost so 
much as when I was shot when the 
rumor got out that I voted WET, 
especiallv when I heard that many of 
the best people believed this political 
scheme. Bovee says, "The highest 
virtue of the tropics is chastity; of 
colder regions, temperance." It seem- 
ed the people had put their reason 
to the cold shoulder of indifference 
with no sympathy for me. But why 
should I vote WET when even pure, 
little children, who have drinking fa- 
thers, askt me how I would vote, and 
when I replied "DRY," they said, 
"We think you ought to." 

The law says no man is sober after 
he takes one drink, so any man may 
be arrested after the first drink. You 
say, "If Temperance is such a good 
thing, why wasn't it brought about 
long ago % ' ' You might as wel claim 
since you are a good man why wasn't 
you born long ago? God's. good mils 
grind slow, but sure. You prophesy 
the laws wil be repeald. That may 
be if politics get into moral rectitude ; 
but why not have a good thing when 
you may and so long as possibl? As 
God created all men to live so near 
Him and the Law as possibl, then 
gave his Spirit to save souls from 
sin, yet if a man twenty-one years 



THE SOUL 



17 



old wil turn his back and vote against 
God's wil, I would say such a person 
is in great danger of losing his soul. 
Why should I vote WET ? 

I have a deep discerning mind and 
know the vilenes of iniquity enuf to 
believe that an officer should never 
lounge around a saloon, thus giving 
an example for better principles, — 
then how could I condescend to vote 
WET? 

Since I have been blind some askt 
me to go into a saloon for a drink, 
but I ever reply: "No thanks, boys, 
when I was on the Police Force I 
sometimes had to go in, but now I 
need not enter and never wil." 

About twenty years ago I walkt up 
the crowded ile in the Court House 
of Spencer County, and let Ira B. 
Chase, the orator, pin a pink and 
white ribbon on my coat as a pledge 
for the Temperance Cause, and I stil 
cherish that bit of ribbon; yes, that 
sentiment and moral duty shal cling 
to my hart forever ! Some declare 
that I should not have voted ; but 
then my conscience could not have 
been clear, for casting a half-Avet vote. 
I can say emphaticaly and sacredly 
that I certainly did vote just as 
Christ would vote, namely DRY. I 
started to the polls early, Miss Ethel 
Shriner met me at Bill Ice's Grocer, 
then took me to Charles Wilbern's 
residence, where Mr. Tharp, the Pol- 
ing Sherif, escorted me thru the 
ropes. I caled for both clerks. Henry 
Maas, the DRY clerk, askt me 
"DRY" I replied "YES," and I am 
confident Mr. Maas put the X on the 
square markt YES. 

In another part of this book 
I have my affidavit, for "The 
Lord answered me and said, 
write the VISION and make it plain 
upon tables, that he may run that 
readeth it,"— Hab. 2: 2.' I would 
not dare to swear falsely. I lost my 
eyes thru the curse of whisky, could 
I then afford to vote WET? "Wine 



is a mocker, strong drink is raging; 
and whosoever is deceived thereby is 
not wise. ' ' — Prov. 20 : 1. 

"Oh, that my words were now 
writen ! Oh, that they were printed 
in a book ! That they were graven 
with an iron pen and lead in the rock 
f orever ! "— Job 19: 23, 24. 

Let us not disparage God's Word. 
Christ avowed : ' ' Touch not, handle 
not, taste not. ' ' Dodsley gave us this 
gem: "Make temperance thy com- 
panion, so shal helth sit on thy brow. ' ' 

One incident I know where a lad 
was intoxicated by simply inhaling 
the gas from a jug of rum. What 
harm wil the ineberate stuf do if 
habitualy used 1 ? Why do Railways, 
Factories, et al, demand temperate 
young men arid women to operate and 
work in the mighty, modern, pro- 
gresiv, industrial institutions? Just 
becaus one who 's brain is tainted with 
liquor cannot reason rashionly nor act 
wisely. Prostitution ruins constitu- 
tion and burrys institution. 

Psychelogists even prove that peo- 
ple get sick by thinking mad thots 
while eating; so I don't only look for 
a Universal Temperance Nation, but 
stricter laws regarding the amount of 
foods we eat, how, what, where and 
when ! I also believ in days to come 
we wil have State Inspectors to en- 
force laws that each home must be 
thoroly ventilated, with special ap- 
provd window appliances. 

Air and water is life, but hot gas 
and whisky is deth ! Like Mark An- 
thony, I may say: "I am no Orator, 
I only speak right on ; I tel you things 
Avhich you yourselves do know." In 
the name of God thru Justis and the 
shame of the Devil that would burst 
us, let's do our duty, our whole duty, 
and nothing but the duty forever- 
more! Heven's work speaks for 
morality, devils jobs whisper for 
raskality. 

To cure a man from geting drunk 
you either must treat him with med- 



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SHOT ON DUTY 



icin, punish him thru fines, make him 
stay at home, or take the saloons a- 
way. I can safely say, not a WET 
man reads the Bible. I am positiv of 
this challenge. If you clon 't, or won 't 
read Holy Writ, listen to some one 
who does j_ and if you can't speak the 
truth, don't say anything! It wil do 
your episgastratum, and other parts 
of your God created body, much good. 

AH a rum seller is fit for is to re- 
tire, bild mansions of blood, then 
when you ask him for a trifle he wil 
hawk and spit tobacco amber and beer 
foam until it makes you think of a 
turbilent sea voyage, and you realize 
why whisky money is tainted. 

In some states, as in New York, 
the law requires a meal to be given 
with' each drink. But the saloonist 
slams, down a stale piece of cow and 
cals it a meal. 

I am proud that No. 1 Precinct, in 
Rockport, wherein I live, went 95 
DRY. If all had done so wel the 
County would never have toppled to 
43 WET. Brother, did you do your 
strenuous, citizen duty? Get into 
line, the battle for supreme right has 
just begun. Among the champions 
for loyal Temperance crusade are 
these wel known men : Hon. John 
W. Burns, the coming orator of the 
Pocket; Allen Payton, the Manager 
of the Local Home Telephone Com- 
pany; Thomas Chrisney, Spencer 
County Representativ and editor of 
the Chrisney Sun; Mr. C. T. Baker, 
the ever-warm-all-over Temperance 
giant and editor of the Grandview 
Monitor;- Rev. Bryan, Wesley Rich- 
ards, C. M. Partridge, and many 
others. I was shot becaus' the whole 
thing originated from our endeavor 
to purify the morals of the communi- 
ty, but people who did not, or could 
not comprehend our meaning often 



made such expressions as : " Sessor is 
a fool," "Sessor don't do right by 
such wholesale supression." They 
did not realize that when one gets 
into a hornet's nest he must hit 
right and left. For that reason the 
Langdon boys are not to blame alone, 
becaus they heard many of the above 
mentioned slanderous remarks, hence 
the boys had some reason to do the 
criminal act. The Bible says we are 
our brother's keeper, but bad "words 
about an Officer bild the minds of 
boys which justis cannot keep. Let 
me warn again all American Youth 
to shun liquor and respect your Of- 
ficials. 

Now a word about the profits on 
this book. Some say Mr. Cook gets 
the most benefit. This is not true; 
but even if he does get a smal per- 
cent from the sales I secure, you must 
remember, Samuel helpt me write the 
book, he paid for making the pic- 
tures, cuts, printing, 'binding, etc. One 
man askt me $100 to write the book, 
another demandt $35 just for read- 
ing and correcting the proof. I want 
you to help us now to make it a suc- 
ces, and not only financialy, but for 
spiritual and moral victory we pray. 



(<5* t&* <■£* 

The Eye 

Never shal my eye sight 

Be restored unto me; 
But I have an insight 

With my mind that is free — 
Thus, duty never blind 

Wil repay in a way 
So my heart ever kind 

Shal for soul visions pray! 




MISS SOPHIE A. GUMBEL 

THE TRAINED NURSE, OF EVANSVILLE, WHO ATTENDED SESSOR. 



THE HEAL 



(ORDER) 



"Order is heven's first law." — Pope. 
: Every loaf has a heel, but some souls are always crusty." 




N the days of Mayhew, 
ORDERLIES kept Loudon 
streets fre from mud in 
winter and fre of dust in 
summer. But now the American 
Orderlie's perilous duty is to keep a 
nincompoop quiet after he is wet 
with bug-juice : But it is a sacred 
encouragement that Universal Tem- 
perance is coming so sure as the Uni- 
versal Language. 

The poet asks: "Why should the 
spirit of mortal be proud ? ' ' We ans- 
wer, "becaus it gives us Universal 
Option in Heven and blis in 'the' 
present. ' ' 

Blindnes was inflicted upon Saul of 
Tarsus, but only for THRE days. 
The hand of the Lord smote Elymas 
blind for a SEASON; but Thomas 
Erartklin Sessor is blind forever! 
Why? Becaus he cherisht ORDER. 

Southey has wel writen : "ORDER 
is the sanity of the mind, the helth of 
the' body, the peace of the city, the 
security of the state. As the beams 
to a house, as the bones to the miro- 
cosm of man, so is order to all 
things," 

Some protest that Mayor John 
Walker wanted too much order, a 
case of "graft versus dam the in- 
habitants.". Or, as South' detects, 
"His command over them was but 



SAUSIV and POLITICAL." We 
shal not try to speak for either side; 
but if Sessor was commanded to act 
the custodian at wholesale, he did no 
more than his duty. 

Again, if the Marshal was too easy, 
as Milton attests: "I had a mind to 
SEE him out, and therefore did not 
care to contradict him," with such a 
humaniterian view, who dares, in the 
name of clear explanation, or the bluf 
of want-to-put-in-more, who, I say, 
dares to swear there were too numer- 
ous arrests in Spencer County during 
the reign of the first Mayor in our 
fertile vicinity? 

Sessor declares that many women 
told him to arrest their husbands, 
then the men later came and told the 
Marshal that he had saved their lives 
and henceforth they would do better. 

Their ambition Avas to better the 
moral conditions of the vicinity, and 
even the sane old Rockport Journal 
lately declared that it believes with 
Solomon: "Spare the rod, spoil the 
child." The much discust Golden 
Rule Police Systems' work, but only 
where citizens back up the Moral 
Suasion of Officers, which often is a 
slow proces. 

It is certainly evident that there 
was no graft, as strenuous efforts were 
made to get the city out of det and 



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SHOT ON DUTY 



more liquidating was done in the 
latter few years than in twenty 
years back, reducing the city public 
det of $35,000 clown to about $11,000. 
Furthermore, Rockport, Spencer Co., 
Indiana, has become known as the 
healthiest city in America, proven by 
statistics. It is an automathic city, 
situated on high rocks, with 3500 
people who striv to inform them- 
selves, yet object not to being taught 
modern reforms ! 

There was a "Pastor Court," for 
often the Ministers of the city would 
meet with Mayor Walker, Squire 
Jones and Sessor, then talk of what 
they would do and what others should 
do to purify the community. 

Mayor Walker is a man of few 
words, but he knows and attends to 
his busines. Squire Jones is a man' 
who stands like Gibralter with of- 
ficial brethern in exacting justice. 
Jones was always particular about 
rendering judgment against a man 
where there was reasonable dout of 
innocence. Some say he placed false 
entry of a. plea of guilty on his dock- 
et, but this he never did. 

There is no city, or smal town, 
which could elect a better man to 
protect the innocent than Squire 
Jones. Sessor had pledged that he 
never would bring Jones a false ar- 
rest, or lie in any event to convict a 
man. 

One time Sessor arrested John 
Henry Payne, fined him $12, which 
Payne would not pay until they got 
over the river, when the Kentuckian 
puled out several hundred dollar. La- 
ter Payne askt Sessor why he arrested 
him, for he was drunk and didn't 
know what he was doing ? 

"That's just it," replied Sessor, 
"you might have fel into the river, 
then sue the city." Sessor 's orders 
always were, "If you must drink, 
don't drink to exces. " 

So, brother, it's morning, get up^- 
see the arc-vision of duty? Let us 



rather believ Mr. Sessor was to ex- 
ceedingly compassionate, for Dryden 
teaches us : 

"Men are not good, but for neces- 
sity: 
Nor ORDERLY are born, but bred." 

Watts, in 1782, invented a rapid 
way of making shot by droping finely 
divided metal into water. But shot 
"whats" now, is prone to create wa- 
ter- and blood when the lead enters 
dutyful eyes. 

The aim of a gun may kil the AM- 
BITION of a man. A revolver fre- 
quently evolves into the wrong hands. 
Merchants are now forbiden to dis- 
play firearms, which is certainly a 
good late law going wel with the Lo- 
cal Option, and pseudo-harmles guns, 
— these are the two devil-cousins of 
corruptiv government. 

It is said when Sessor was shot, 
one of the Langdon boys yelled : 
' ' Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away 
AMBITION;" but' others captivulate 
that the Langdon boys were too il- 
literate to quote such phrase. Sessor 
amplifies : ' ' Never mind. Blest are 
the pure in hart for they shal see 
God. Faith here is turned to vision 
There. We walk by faith not by 
sight. ' ' 

Sight gives aim, for ambition; but 
insight inherits mind power, thru any 
condition ! 

One who has no eyes, can't blink; 
But it strengthens the sense to 
think ! 

We have BLINDS before our win- 
dow PANES, but when blindnes 
comes into our eyes, the PAIN never 
lets the sun in. 

1 ' And when they had blindfolded 
him, they struck his face." — Luke. 
Langdons' blindfolded Sessor; wil 
you strike the face, or cheer the 
hart ? 

Blue eyes represent love, gray eyes 
signify talent; but black eyes often 
prove deformity. 



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21 



Bodenstedt says : "A gray eye is 
a sly eye; a brown one indicates a 
roughish humor; a blue eye expreses 
fidelity; while the sparkling of a dark 
eye is like the ways of Providens, al- 
ways a riddle. ' ' 

Arc-vision measures the least dis- 
tans to any horizon ; bebalfic-vision, 
the immediate sight of God; direct- 
vision, that view performt by means 
of straight rays; and refieeted-vision, 
that scene procured by looking at a 
mirror, or leting mind see out. All 
these Sessor lost, except, we might 
say, a part of the later sense, the 
reflection of soul and mind vision. 

Some Rockport student askt us to 
give an ORDERLY list of diseases to 
which the eye is subject, so here are 
a few : 

Amaurosis, amblyopia, cataract, 
choroiditis, cyclitis, glaucoma, hypo- 
pion, heratisis, hypermetropy, neona- 
torum, panophthalmitis, pannus, pin- 
gueculia, pterygium, rentinitis, scle- 
ritis. staphyloma, trachoma, xeroph- 
thalmia. Some of these maladies 
cans blindnes ; but where blindnes is 
caused by a drunken enemy the con- 
ditions are more hart rending. As for 
example : when you kick at something. 
but mis, the jar is the more sever! 

Describing the eye, Bilz says: "All 
the influences and conditions of the 
outer world and of our own bodies 
are preceived thru the" five senses and 
by the sensitiv nerves conveyed to 
the brain, and then we become con- 
scious of them. The senses are only 
the ends of nerves, which are con- 
nected with a special apparatus for 
the reception of exterior expressions. 
According to their importance, the 
five (medium of) senses are divided 
into two higher, the eye and the ear, 
and the thre lower — the skin, nose 
and tung. 

In consequence of the greater im- 
portance of the two higher senses, 
their organs have only one purpose, 
and no ulterior object, hence their 



construction is more artistic and ela- 
borate than the lower organs. This 
is especially the case with the eye, 
which is a most skilfully constructed 
apparatus, subject to the laws of 
optics. ' ' 

From the most remote ages, the 
e,ye has been considered the most 
beautiful gift of nature, and next to 
the los of life, the los of eyesight is 
the most serious. 

In the eye the principal divisions 
are the eyebal and the subsidiary or- 
gans which serv to move .and protect 
it. The eyeball lies in a funnel-shapd 
cavity, protected on all sides by walls 
of bone, and padded with a thick 
sheath in which there are tiny open- 
ings to allow of the passage of the 
optic nerv and the muscles which 
move the eye. The eye ball (in form 
like an apple, of which the optic nerv 
may be considered the stem ) moves 
freely in all directions in this socket. 
Just as the skin of an onion lie one 
over another, so the eye is envelopt 
in -thre outer coverings. The outer 
skin, so-called sclerotic membrane, is 
tough, strong and leathery, but is 
covered with a sdft mucous membrane 
which extends to the upper and lower 
eyelids. 

At the front of the eye, the sclero- 
tic membrane, is blended into a trans- 
parent, more curvd membrane, the 
cornea, which fits into it rather as a 
watchglas fits into the rim. 

Inside the sclerotic membrane, 
comes the choroid membrane, coverd 
by a brown pigment. This curves 
toward the front and forms by cros- 
ing a cavity (the pupil) the iris, 
which is in the middle, and forms the 
division between the front and back 
of the eye. The inner and most im- 
portant skin for purposes of seeing, 
is the retina. This consists of ten 
layers of different sorts of cells and 
fibres, and is nothing else than a 
network formd by the ramification of 
the optic nerv. Behind the iris lies 



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a transparent, elastic, crystalline lens, 
shaped like a magnifying glas, the 
offis of which is to refract the rays of 
light. By means of its power to 
cnrv itself thicker or thinner, objects 
which are near or far off can be seen 
equally wel. Behind this lens is a 
circular body as clear as water (vit- 
reous humor), which, like the lens, 
serves to refract the rays. Vitreous 
humor and lens lie behind the iris in 
the back of the socket, the space in 
front is filled by a watery, transparent 
fluid — the aqueous humor. The eye 
is protected by the eyebrows; the eye- 
lids with their special muscels for 
movements, their soft membrane and 
eyelashes, and the tear glands which 
lie on the outside of the eyeball. Cor- 
nea, aqueous humor, lens, and vitre- 
ous humor, as transparent bodies, 
serv the purpose of seeing, in so far 
that they receive and refract the rays 
of light and produce on the retina a 
reversd picture of the objects seen. 
Light produces a movement and vibra- 
tion of the cells and fibers of the 
retina. This vibration is conveyed by 
the optic nerv to the brain, and the 
impression of seeing is produced. How 
this takes place has not yet been dis- 
covered, and is stil a puzzle. 

'Prof. Dr. H. P. Holler, Alexandria, 
Va., says: "My new theory of double 
refraction in sight would make the 
eye a rheita telescope, instead of a 
mere camera obscnra. The lens-qual- 
ity .of the cornea has generally been 
over-looked. The two humors might 
have indicated two lenses, not men- 
tioning the fact that they themselves 
refract rays like water, making con- 
verging and diverging focuses pos- 
sibl. It does not seem to be con- 
clusively proven that the image on 
the retina is not right side up. The 
pupil counteracts spherical aberration, 
and is in fact a diaphram. 

From time immemoral the fine, ar- 
tistic construction of the eye has been 
a subject of wonder, and a microscopic 



investigation of its smallest details 
has only serve! to increase the admir- 
ation. 

If any one has "wits at the tip of 
his fingers" it must be the blind man, 
for it is claimed by some psychologists 
that the nerv matter at the ends of 
the fingers closely resembl the gray 
matter of the brain. 

The first color registerd by the 
sight is a dul, dark^red, produced by 
vibrations numbering some four hun- 
dred billions per second. The rate of 
vibration raising produces the color 
of orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, 
and finally vibrations at the rate of 
eight billion per second produce the 
violet color. There are innumerabl 
shades of color the present human 
family cannot distinguish, both be- 
low and above this general known 
color scale. It is claimed that the 
workers on the mosaics at the Vatican 
were able to distinguish 25,000 dif- 
ferent shades of color. And scientists 
hold that some day humanity wil be 
so proficient that al may detect color 
by sound. If so, wil the eye then be 
useles? Even the ancient Greek phil- 
osofer Democritus held that the sens- 
es of seeing, smeling, tasting and 
hearing were but extensions of the 
original amobien sense of touch. 

Dr. Carl Hertzell, of Berlin, Ger- 
many, has invented, the ' ' Ophthalmo- 
Diaphanoscope, " by which one may 
see the back of another's eye. Per- 
haps, some day too, one may not 
only see another's eye from the back, 
but the blind may get back their 
sight. 

Writing of the presumd keen senses 
of the bfind, John G. McKendick in 
Nature (London), has this argument: 

' ' There appears to be no evidence 
that blindnes, per se, increases the 
sensitivenes of the senses, but on the 
principl that if one sense is defectiv 
the others are likely to be also de- 
fectiv, the other senses, in the average 
blind, are les acute than in the see- 



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23 



ing\ Hoav, then, are Ave to explain 
.the wonderful way in which the blind 
avoid obstacles and find their way 
about? It has been supposed that by 
praetis the skin of the face, in par- 
ticular, becomes more sensativ, 'or, in 
other words, that the blind habitualy 
pay attention to currents of air play- 
ing on their faces, and especially they 
may be influenct by sensations of 
temperature. They say that they 
'know' they are near a wal becaus 
they 'feel' it, altho they do n/ot touch 
it. It would be interesting to ex- 
amine the blind as regards the sensa- 
tivenes of the hot and cold spots of 
the skin as revealed by Goldscheider 
and others. 

The spirit of sensitivenes to the di- 
rection and temperature of air cur- 
rents is supported by the observation 
that the blind do not so readily avoid 
an obstacle if the face is covered or 
even if they are blindfolded. This 
suggests the question : Are all blind 
absolutely insensitiv to light? (Mr. 
Sessor hopes to explain some of these 
arguments in issues of THE PRESI- 
DENT.) It is believed that the blind 
pay more involuntary attention to the 
direction and quality of sounds. The 
blind man 'taps' his stick. When 
snow is on the ground the blind have 
difficulty in avoiding obstacles. 

"One must not forget however, the 
physical element that enters into the 
question. The effort of attention is 
superadded to the sensory impression. 
Impressions may reach the sensorium, 
of which we are usualy unconscious, 
but they may be detected by an ef- 
fort of attention. This was strongly 
pointed out by Helmholtz. , The sens- 
es of the blind are not in the normal 
blind more acute, as usualy supposed; 
but I hold that the necessity of the 
case oblige the blind to pay closer at- 
tention to them."' 

Just lately the physicians were mys- 
tified by a man, in the Manhattan Eye, 
Ear and Throat Hospital in New 



York, who can see only when in a 
recumbent position. This is a queer 
and pityful case; yet sight one-half 
the time, like sight of one eye, is far 
better than total darknes. 

Sessor filosfically says if he only 
could see by lying down, he would 
do as Mark Twain — stay in bed until 
some duty lets him see his way out. 

In Philadelphia there was a case 
reported where the doctors operated 
on an eye, but got the optics so mis- 
constructed that the man now sees 
thru his ears. 

The number of blind averages about 
1 to every 1,000 inhabitants; hence, 
there are approximately some 85,000 
blind people in the United States.' 

Christian philanthropy first was 
content to furnish "blind asylums;'' 
but since Weef, in 1178, and Valen- 
tine Hauj, in 1784, establisht at Paris, 
schools .nd books lot; the blind, mo- 
dern humanity has greatly progrest, 
so the blind may now support them- 
selves, as there are numerous papers 
publisht, in Braille letters, for the 
blind. 

Becaus of some blind frauds, many 
people are reluctent at encouraging 
the blind, real hustler. 

Helen Keller is one of the most 
notabl blind persons, and she gives 
Sessor a kind word. 

' ' I believe, ' ' epitomized Addison, 
' ' the story of Argus implies no more, 
than that the eye is in every part; 
that is to say, every other part would 
be MUTILATED were not its FORCE 
imparted. ' ' 

But not every FORCE of the Ex- 
Marshal is gone. He struggles by his 
one remaining inodmitable power 
"GRIT." 

As intimated, Sessor is not only 
deprivt of sight; but he cannot smel, 
nor taste. Job asks: "Is there any 
TASTE in the white of an egg?" Not 
for Sessor, since he was shot by a 
bad-egg who played a shel-game ! 

You know how dreadful it is to 



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SHOT ON DUTY 



have no appetite (sitophobia), or how 
disgusting when you obses a great ap- 
petite (bulima), yet nothing tastes 
good ! 

Biologists elucidate that an ordin- 
ary person SUDENLY struck blind, 
who then can't see, taste nor smel, 
wil commit suicide within five years. 

Bacon postulated : ' ' The sweetest 
SMEL in the air is that of the white 
doubl violet.' 5 ' It is a co-incident that 
Sessor wore this lovely flower in his 
coat lapel every Sunday some years 
ago, while on my father's farm. But 
now the scent of even this charming 
flower is suffocated, to Sessor, for- 
ever! 

"What, then, is TASTE but those in- 
ternal powers, 

Activ and strong, and feelingly alive 

To each fine impulse? A discerning 
sense 

Of decent and sublime, with quick dis- 
jgust 

From things deformt, or discouraged, 
or gros 

In species? This, nor gems, nor stone 
of gold, 

Nor purple state, nor culture can be- 
stow. ' '— Akensicle. 

In vernacular slang Ave often hear 
the precious eyes alluded to as "hed- 
lights." A good man may stand hed- 
on-collisions, much fire and satire 
from some bush-whacker in ambush; 
but Sessor no dout now wonders why 
his "bed-lights," were taken, and, 
as with Moses, the burnt bush re- 
mained. . Moses saw the mysterious 
power ascend heven-ward, but in Ses- 
sor 's plight the people are' compeld to 
hear that the mutilators went to a 
smal city along where the Ohio waves 
wash. Shakespere might sing of 

them: "Their EYES" of FIRE 
sparkling thru SIGHTS of steel." 

The doctors waited on Sessor for 
several weeks, for life was almost 
extinct at many hours; but Sessor 's 



invincibl courage was a veritabl place- 
bo. Dr. Knapp of Evansville was 
called. Sessor says his brain felt as 
tho it was rolling around a disk of 
knives. One time a clot of blood 
came from the brain and his pulse 
sank from 60 to 40 in a few seconds. 
Thru the care of the pleasant traind 
nurse, Miss Sophie Anna Gumbel, 
from Evansville, Sessor rallied. This 
nurse says : ' ' Sessor ■ has the most 
cheerful disposition of any patient I 
ever attended. His Yankee gumption 
is superb ! There is no faint hart 
about Rockport's blind former-Mar- 
shal. ' ' 

It is largely thru the expert treat- 
ment and careful attention of Dr. 
Shirley Lang that Sessor owes his 
miraculous life. Few ever get up un- 
der such perilous conditions. Sessor 
says : ' ' One of my eyes appears as 
tho with it I can see. This is per- 
haps God's foresight, for some thugs 
might beat me some time if the dout- 
er would not now fear I could see 
him." To add to the sad affair Ses- 
sor 's wife had to be taken to the 
Hospital at Evansville, where she re- 
mained for many weeks. 

The people of Rockport have made 
donations for Sessor, and the Ben Hur 
Lodge paid his expenses for some 
time; but NOW Mr. Sessor prefers to 
support himself, mother and family 
thru the sales of this book and THE 
PRESIDENT Magazine, to which he 
has pledged regular ai tides in the 
course of many years D. V. 

A disabled blind soldier receives 
$100 pension a month, and the present 
Marshal of Rockport gets $75 a 
month. Would you have all the 
world's beauty shut out for only $50 
a month? Some -people soon forget. 
Don't go sight-seeing unles you help 
the blind Ex-Marshal, thus ameliorat- 
ing the visions of the soul. 

Writing to me under date of April 
19th, Miss Gumbel says: "I congratu- 
late you upon your worthy undertak- 



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25 



ing in Mr. Sessor's behalf. My sym- 
pathy was deeply aroused for him 
while acting in the capacity as train- 
ed-nurse to him in his great trial. 
His fortitude was indeed wonderful. 

"Recognizing your literary talent 
and wel merited influence in the com- 
munity in which you live I see no 
•reason why your book should not be 
a sueces both literally and financially. 

"I am glad indeed to know that 
Mr. Sessor has so many kind friends 
that are standing heroically by him 
in his time of need." 

Milton was totaly blind, and Whit- 
tier was color-blind; but the world 
loved them and encouraged their am- 
bitions. Fanny Crosby, who was to- 
taly blinded when six weeks old by 
the application of a hot poultis by a 
physician, is now 89 years old, and 
she has writen 5,000 songs. Stephen 
Girard almost kiled himself when he 
found out that he had one "twisted- 
eye." But he later owned twenty- 
two ships and was the first man in 
America who had a million dollars in 
working property. 

Sessor is a poor man, but who dares 
limit his life's work? One thing is 
certain : In years to come Sessor ^wil 
always be proof that whisky not only 
harms the drinker, but ruins the joy 
of many an officer. 

All have a right to their opinion — 
part of the time to part with partial 
opinions. 

Hubbard epitomizes : ' ' Succesf ul 
revolutions are always fought by 
FARMERS, and the government 
which they create is destroyed by city 
mobs." "Man made the cities, God 
the country, but the devil made the 
smal towns." But, "Do not suppose 
that all the gambling is done in the 
cities. Eliminate the paste-bord pro- 
clivities." Let the City and Country, 
the Wets and Drys, be united under 
the living emblem — Franklin Thomas 
Sessor, our Ex-Marshal, then sin no 
more! 



Some people you must grant favors 
in their awkward controversy, so al- 
lowing the crux of the whole history, 
thus : Even if Sessor had too much 
confidence in ALL countrymen, and if 
what shal be wil be, — unles you 
(wiser) are there to prohibit, then 
don't yourself now go to the other 
extreme and have not enuf confidence 
in ONE citizen— F. T. Sessor! 

There are two gigantic "iff's," 
which are not a clouting, but a certain 
curse to our nation — they are ' ' Sher- 
iff," and "Tar-iff." 

Put away with whisky and the of- 
fis of Sheriff wil become obsolete, and 
after the Sheriffs are gone Ave won't 
need so much talk and acts on Tariff. 

Don't revise the Tariff, but despise 
whisky — never regard it your duty to 
drink the swil; that's devising moral 
welth, with no tax on helth. 

One more thot, as the preacher og- 
les, then I shal close, — provided the 
Lord won't pleonasm (the same thing 
over), for another hour: 

In the course of many years I have 
gathert thousands of clipings pertain- 
ing to almost every subject under the 
glare which Joshua stopt. Among 
these clipings I find the old school- 
question debated unceasingly in all 
sections of the country, and that is : 
"Resolvt that Hope of Reward in- 
fluences men more than the Fear of 
Punishment," or "The Rod quickens 
to Righteousnes more men than does 
Moral Suasion. ' ' 

Out of 593 cases I find the judges 
decided 561 times for the Affirmativ, 
and only 32 decisions for the Negativ, 
— and it must be presumed there were 
chances for so sane, impartial judges 
on one side as for the other, with the 
debaters on equal terms and wits. 

The answer, then, seems to be, that 
human pseudo-civilized life is stil 
blind in its obligations to moral duty, 
and Roosevelt was not too sever when 
he demandt more Civil Servis men for 
Congres; becaus debates and life 



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SHOT ON DUTY 



prove that we need eaueious Detec- 
tives so urgently as the elating Pas- 
tors, for water never runs up hil until 
forced; and we all know the air is 
purer on the summit of the mountain. 

In China they have a Marshal for 
every ten men, and each man keeps 
survillance over the other. 

In America we are on the verge 
of that age when each person must 
be on the gard of himself, for self- 
defence is the first law of " Look- 
out!" Yet, none should be impartial. 
Sessor wasn't. "Every man would 
be a distinct species to himself were 
there no sympathy among individu- 
als." Now remember, some day your 
sight might be smasht out, then help 
would be sweet to your hands and 
sacred for your mother's hart. Let 
Clio 's record be clean ! 

In conclusion Mr. Sessor says: 
"Hereafter I wil try to live a thoro- 
ly religious life, with a kind hart for 
all; becaus I realize that while my 
present condition may be the work of 
fate, yet I shal trust in God forever 
and worship with my friends. I 
pray to educate and minister thru this 
book -so that many may be softened 
at hart and brot to the saving grace 
of a Redeemer. On thing I ask: "I 
wish my friends Avould dres in white 
fifty girls from six to fourteen years, 
to bed mv funeral procession any time 
that I may pas to the Great Beyond. 
I ask this becaus I Avas blinded to 
earthly life while protecting the in- 
nocent. I stil have courage and hope 
to struggle, even if I must do like the 
Indian woman who cut out her own 
flesh for bait to catch fish for starv- 
ing' children." 



In the minds of the better clas of 
people there is no dubitation but that 
Mr. §essor did his whole duty and 
nothing but his duty! Had they not 
believed so he could not have sold 169 
books in 13 days. 

So with the Bard of Avon we all 
vouchsafe : 

"The Gods can have no mortal OF- 
FICER 
More like a god than you." 

Or, as Goldsmith cajoles: 

' ' Taught by the Power who pities me, 
I LEARN to pity him. ' ' 

Have you lernt? 
Then act! 

The 

Fine word — 
' ' Man 's-laughter, ' ' 
Is yet grotesque: • 
Move S backward then 
Male' mirth becomes certain— 
"Man-slaughter." Sure a 
Sad English trait; 
For no sin 
Is so- 
Mean 

As 

To kil 
Fellowmen. 
Again, no .joy 
Is so sacred as 

"Man 's-laughter.' If men LAUGHED 
So much without coin 
As they SLAUGHTER 
For it, world 
Would be 
Blis ! 



FIGURE THRE ODDITIES 



Sessor was born thre miles from 
Buffaloville. He was 39 years the 
7th of June, 1909. He was shot on 
the 23d clay of January, with a 38 
pistol; he lay thre minutes; thre bul- 
lets mist him; thre doctors attended 
him; the cost of nurse was $63; his 
pulse went down to 36 beats. 

All this is unique, but more is to 
follow: There are thre chief char- 
acters: Frank, Bill and Jim; Lang- 
dons ran, thre boys and thre officers 
hunted for the Langdons in Kentucky. 
The trial was held thre weeks after 
Sessor was shot, which happened to 
be the 13th day of February; he 
wrote to me (Cook) on March 3 
(third month), regarding the book 
"Shot On Duty," which, by the way, 
has thre words for its title. 



But follow stil further: Sessor did 
his first canvasing for this book on 
the 13th day of March and received 
13 orders the first thre hours. Now 
as we go to pres he has 300 orders, 
and he declares he wil get many more 
in the course of time. 

Now let us not say of the Langdons 
with Gibbon: "When Commodus had 
once TASTED human BLOOD he be- 
came INCAPABL of PITY." 

But may we believ of Langdons' 
and Sessor, with Milton: 

"What better can we do than pros- 
trate fall 
Before him revent, and there confes 
Humbly our faults, and PARDON 
beg, with tears 
Watering the ground." 



(THE END) 




THOMAS F. SESSOR AFTER SHOT 
TOTALY BLIND 



28 SHOT ON DUTY 

SESSOR'S AFFIDAVIT 

State of Indiana, 



. ss: 
Spencer County. 

Thomas F. Sessor, being duly sworn on Lis oath, 
states that he is a resident and legal voter of Precinct 
Number One in Ohio Township, Spencer County, Indiana, 
and that he was on the 4th day of May, 1909. 

That at a Local Option Election held on the 4th 
day of May, 1909, in Spencer County, Indiana, to deter- 
mine by ballot whether the sale of intoxicating liquors as 
beverage shall be prohibited in said County, he went to 
the polls in his said Precinct, and on account of his 
physical inability to vote for himself, he instructed the 
polling clerk for the "Drys" to mark his ballot in the 
square containing the word Yes, meaning "Dry;" that 
he has every reason to believe, that said polling clerk 
marked his ballot as instructed, and that he makes this 
affidavit for the benefit of the public in order that the 
public might know that he is against the sale of intoxicat- 
ing liquors as a beverage in said Spencer County. 

THOMAS F. SESSOR. 
Witness : • 

MINNIE D. BABB. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 7th day of May, 

1909. 

MINNIE D. BABB, 

Notary Public. 
My commission expires January 8^ 1911. 




SQUIRE WM. JONES 




PROSECUTOR L. N. SAVAGE 



DUTY EPIGRAMS 

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..("Lass die sehwerste Pflieht dir die allerheiligate Pflicht sein.") — Let the 
most arduous duty be the most sacred of all to thee. — Lavater. 

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"Eve^ subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his 
own."— Neu. V; 4: 1. 

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"One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but 
he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should." — Goethe. 

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"What is thy duty? To accept the challenge of the pasing day." 

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"The sum of duty let two words contain; Be humble and just. " — Prior. 

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"Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at 
its back. ' ' — Kingsley. 

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"Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare 
too much." — Emerson. 

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"Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence." — George Eliot. 

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' ' To think alright is the sum of human duty. ' '■ — Pascal. 

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"Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the Avhole duty of 
man. ' ' — Bible. 

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"Man cannot choose his duties." — George Eliot. 

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"God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it." — Ruskin. 

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"The first duty of a man is that of subduing fear; he must rid of fear; he 
cannot act at all til then; his acts are selfish, not true." — Carlyle. 

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"The first duty of every man in the world is to find his true master, and, 
for his own good, submit to him; and to find his true inferior, and, for that 
inferior's good, conquer him."- — Ruskin. 

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"Knowledg of our duties is the most useful part of filosofy." — Whately. 



DICTIONARY OF THE EYE 



CILIUM: (sil-i-um.) Eyelash. 

CILIARY: (sil'-e-a-ri.) Smal artries 
of the eye. 

CONJUNCTIVA : (kon-jungk-ti-vi- 
tis.) Mucous membrane of the eye. 

CORNEA: (kor-ne-a.) Transparent 
anterior portion of eyebal, y 6 en- 
tire bal. 

CRYSTALLINE: (kris'-tal-in.) Lens 
of the eye; behind the iris or in 
front of the vitreous body. 

HETEROPHORIA : (het-e-ro-fo-ri-a) 
Failure of the visual axes to meet 
at the fixation point. 

IRIS : The colored, contractu mem- 
bran suspended between the lens 
and the cornea in the aquieous hu- 
mor of the eye, separating the an- 
terior and posterior chambers of the 
bal. It regulates by _ contraction 
and dilation the entranc of light. 

ISOPHORIA: (iso-fo'-re-ah.) Mean- 
ing equal in strength. Equal ten- 
sion of vertical muscles of the eye 
with visual lines in same horizon- 
tal plane. 

LACRIMAL: (lak'-rim-al.) Tear. 
Pertaining to or secreating tears. 

LAGOPHTHALMUS : Inability to 
close the eyes. 

MEIBORNEIAN glands: (me-bo '-me- 
an.) Sebaceous glands of eyelids. 

MESORTINA : (mes-o-ret '-in-ah. ) 
Middle layer of retina. 

MICATION: (mi-ka-shon.) Winking. 
Same as NICTATION. 



NYSTAGMUS: (nis-tag-mus.) Oscil- 
lation of eyebals : Lateral, rotary 
and vertical. 

OPHTHALMOSCOPY: (off-thal- 

mos'-ko-pe.) Examination of in- 
terior of eye. 

OPIATE : That which causes sleep. 

OPITIC: Pertaining to the eye or 

vision. 

ORBIT: Bony cavity of skul which 
holds the eyebal. 

PUPIL : Round orfis in iris thru 
.which light pases. 

RETINA: (ret-e-nah.) Internal mem- 
brane of the eye.- 

SCLERA: (skle'-ra.) . Firm, white 
membrane of the eyebal. 

TARAS : Condensd connectiv tissue 
of eyelids. 

TEARS : Saline fluid secreated by the 
lachrymal glands. 

UREA: (u-re-ah.) The chorid ciliary 
body, and iris, as a whole. 

VASA VORTICOSA : Venis of chorid 
. coat of the eye. 

VITELLINE: (vitel'in.) Chief pro- 
leid of the crystallin lens, clast as 
globulin. 

VITREOUS chamber: (vit'-re-us.) 
Portion of the cavity of the eyebal 
behind the lens. 

WAL EYE : Eye in which iris is light 
colored or white. Lecuoma or dense 
opacity of cornea. Divergent stra- 
bismus. 




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Diseases of Eye 

ASTHENOPIA : (as-the-no '-pi-a.) 
Weaknes of the ocular muscles of 
the eye. Varieties: Retinal, occom- 
oclativ, and muscular. 

BLASTODERM: (blas'-to-derm.) In- 
flamation of edges of the eyelids. 

CATARACT: (kat'-a-rakt.) Opacity 
of crystalline lens. 

DIPLOPIA : ( di-plo '-pi-ah. ) Doubl 
vision. 

GLAUCOMA: (glaw-ko'-ma.) In- 
crease of fluid pressure within the 
eyebal and gradual dimnes of vis- 
ion. 

KEROTALGIA : (ker-a-tal'-je-ah.) 
Neuralgia of the cornea. 

LEUKOMA: (lu-ko'-mah.) A dense 
white opacity of cornea. 

MACULA: (mak-ula.) Yellow spots 
of retina. 

MIOSIS : (mi-o-sis.) Abnormal smal- 
nes of pupils. 

MAOALOPSIA : (mag-al-op '-se-ah.) 
An affection of the eye in which 
objects appear enlarged. 

MYDRIASIS: (mid-ri-as-sis.) Abnor- 
mal dilation of the pupil. 

MYDRIATIC: (mid-re-at-ik.) An a- 
gent causing mydriasis, smalnes of 
pupil. 

NEBULA: (neb-u-lah.) Grayish o- 
pacity of cornea. 

OPHTHALAMIA : (off -thai '-me-ah.) 
Inflimation of conjunctiva. 

OPHTHALMOLOGY : (of-thal-mol '- 
o-je.) Scienc of effections of the 
eye. 



OPHTHALMOPATHY: (off-thai- 
mop '-a-the.) Any disease of the eye. 

OPHTHALMOPHTH1SIS : (off-thal- 

mo'-ti-sis.) .Wasting of the eyebal. 

OPHTHALMOPLEGIA: (off-thal-nio- 
ple'-ge-ah.) Paralysis of ocular 
muscles. 

OPHTHALMORRHAGIA : (off-thal- 
mo-ra'-je-ah.) Hemorrage of the 
eye. 

OPHTHALMORRHEA : (off -thai-mo- 
re '-ah.) Flow of blood from eye. 

OPHTHALMORRHEXIS : (off-thal- 
mo-reks-is.) Rupture of an eyebal. 

OPTIC NEURITUS: (optic nuri'- 
tis.) Inflamation of interior of eye. 

PACHYBLEPHARON : (pah-e-blef '•- 
a ron.) Thickening of eyelids. 

P ANNUS : (pan-us.) Corneal vascul- 
arization and opacity, proceding 
from above downward horizontally. 

PANOPHTHALMITIS : (pan-off-thal- 
mi-tis.) Purelent inflamation of en- 
tire uveal tract, Avhich fils eye with 
pus and ends in complete destruc- 
tion. 

PHLYCTENULA : (flik-ten '-u-lah.) 
A minuute watery vesicl occuring on 
corena of eye. 

PINGUECULA: (pin-gwec '-u-lah.) A 
smal yellow tumor or elevation in 
conjunctiva near margin of cornea. 
Composd of connectiv tissue and e- 
lastic fibers. 

PHOTALGIA: (fo-tal'-ji-ah.) Pain 
produced by light. 

PRESBYOPIAL : (pres-be '-o-pe-ah.) 
Los of accomidation clue to age. 

PTERYGIUM: (ter-ij-e-um.) A tri- 
angular thickening of the conjunc- 
tiva. Apex towards cornea. 



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DICTIONARY OF EYE 



PROSIS: (to-sis.) Drooping of upper 
eyelids from paralysis. 

RETINITIS: (ret-in-i-tis.) Infiama- 
tion of retina. 

RUTIDOSIS: (rnt-i-do'-sus.) Con- 
tracting or puckering of cornea 
just before deth. 

SCABRITES: (ska-brit'-i-ey.) Amor- 
bid roughnes of inner surface . of 
eyelids, causing sensations as if 
sand were in eye. 

STAPHYLOMA: (staf-il-o'-mah.) A 
protrusion of the cornea to greater 
or les degre, which is opake. 

STRABISMUS: (stra-bis'-mus.) De- 
viatior or squint of one eye in look- 
ing at an object, or .inability to ex- 
ercize binocular vision. 

STYE. Circumscribed inflamation of 
the connectiv tissue near edge of 
the eyelid, ending in suppuration. 

SYNECHIA: (sin-e'-ki-ah.) Anterior 
morbid adhesion between iris and 
cornea; or posterior morbid adhes- 
ion between iris and crystalline 
lense. 

TRACKOMA: (tra-ko'-mah.) Granu- 
lar lids. 

TRICHIASIS: (trik-i'-a-sis.) Inver- 
sion of the eyelashes against cornea, 

- which is clouded and inflamed by 
their constant rubing. 

VARICOBLEPHARON : ( var-ik-o- 
blef '-o-ron.) Varicose tumor of the 
eyelids. 

VARICULA: (va-rik'-u-lah.) A smal 
varix; especially, a varicose dilation 
of the veins of mucous membrane 
covering anterior surface of the eye. 

VERNAL conjunctivitis^ occuring us- 
ually thru the spring in the young. 

XEROPHTHALMIA: (ze-roff-thaP- 
me-ah.) Conjunctival drynes, with 
thicknes of conjunctiva. 



Vision of Eye 

EMMETROPIA : (em-e-tro '-pi-ah.) 
Normal acconiidation of the eye. 
Ability to focus on the retina a 
luminous point from 3.9 to 4.7 in- 
ches from the eye. 

ESOPHORIA: (es-o-fo'-re-ah.) Tend- 
ing of visual lines inward. 

HEMIANOPSIA : (hem-e-an-op '-se- 
ah.) Obliteration of half of vision 
field. 

HYPEROPIA: (bi-per-o'-pe-ah.) A 

condition which throws the focus 
behind the retina — opposed to my- 
opia. 

METAMORPHOPSIA : (Met-am-or- 
fop-se-ah.) Visual distortion of ob- 
jects. 

MICROPSIA: (mi-krop'-se-ah.) Vis- 
ual diminution of objects. 

MONOBLEPSIS: " (mon-o-blep'-sis.) 
Distinct vision only when one eye 
is used. 

MYOPIA: (mi-o'-pe-ah.) Near-sight- 
ednes; light rays being focused be- 
fore reaching retina. 

ORTHOPHORIA : (or-tho-fo '-re-ah.) 
Tendency to a parallelism of visual 
axes. 

SCINTELLATION : (sin-til '-a-shon.) 
Visual sensation of sparks. 

SPINTHERISM : (spin'-ther-ism.) 
Illusory sensation of sparks before 
the eyes. 

TEICHOPSIA: (ti-kop'-se-ak.) A 
temporary blindnes. 

TYPHLOLOGY: (tif-lo-sis.) Total 

blindnes. 

I 

XANTHOCYANOPIA : (zan-tho-si- 
an-o'-pe-ah.) A form of color-blind- 
nes in which only yellow and blue 
are perceivd correctly, red and 
green being imperceptabl. 









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